Conservatives have resurrected video footage of President Obama warning against raising taxes during a recession, taunting President Biden and his Democrats who are pushing forward a massive tax-and-spend bill.
In the footage from around the time of the Great Recession, Mr. Obama said in August 2009: “The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that would just suck up — take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.”
Republicans circulated the video on social media as Senate Democrats prepared a roughly $433 billion tax hike and the U.